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Anorexia is a severe physcological disorder. It is defined as a severe eating disorder in which people refuse to eat while denying that their behavior and appearance, which may become skeletal, is out of the ordinary. Anorexia Nervosa also translates to “nervous loss of appetite” which can be misleading because only in the final stages of this disease do people loose their appetite. The German terminology is Pubertatsmagersucht which means “mania for leanness”. Anorexia Nervosa is a dramatic loss of weight usually less than eighty percent of the expected weight for height. Thirty to fifty percent of patients with Anorexia also have symptoms of Bulimia. In six to eighteen percent of the cases the disease is fatal, with complications of starvation and suicide. During the teenage years, the average girl requires some 2,200 calories a day and the average boy some 2,800 a day. Several key nutrients are essential for an adolescents’ growth including calcium and iron. Calcium like in milk can help prevent iron-deficiency anemia which is not uncommon in youths. Fifteen to twenty percent of people with